Research Areas

Research Areas

Computer Science/Engineering Fundamentals Groups

Computer Science/Engineering Fundamentals consist of four groups that study in-depth theories and technologies that form the basis of computer science and engineering, also providing a foundation for undergraduate education.

Theory & Software

The Theory & Software group aims to develop programming languages and software that provide theoretical backgrounds and facilitate communication between the computer and human beings, which are indispensable to computing theory, logic, language theory, geometry, methodology, etc. within the computing environment.

Data Science

Data Science is a research group that studies how to recognize, search, analyze, process, and represent data and deliver them effectively to users. Data science has critical importance in today’s IT world where a massive amount of data is generated from a wide variety of sources in many different ways. The data science group includes Machine learning, Data analytics, Human language understanding and synthesis, Computer vision, Computer graphics, Haptics, and Virtual reality fields.

System Science

System Science is a field that develops and operates various optimal computer systems with consideration of performance, cost, and reliability, from the device level to a large scale computing environment. It is a fundamental field that props up the computer-based IT industry. At the core of its importance lies in-depth knowledge in theory and practice of hardware and software in a large scope. At present, our System Science Group covers computer architecture, system operation, and cloud and big data computing.

Network Science

Network Science is an essential field in the modern computer industry in which information is disseminated by many connected computers. Not only that, its increasing role as an infrastructure that supports various fields including BT and NT is ever more important.

Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Applications Groups

Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Applications comprises three research groups that pursue collaborative and interdisciplinary research, even with other IT-related departments at POSTECH.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute

HCI studies everything related to two-way communication between users and computers, based on the fact that it is the human beings who use the computers. It is one of the most exemplary interdisciplinary fields combining computer engineering-based technology with humanitarian studies, which has its basis in psychology, sociology, etc.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute

Research Areas

Professors

System and Interface Architecture

Graphics

Seungyong Lee

Computer Vision

Daijin Kim,
Bohyung Han

Natural Language

Gary Geunbae Lee,
Jong-Hyeok Lee

Touch UI / Virtual Reality

Seungmoon Choi

Enabling Technology

Embedded System

Jong Kim

Intelligence

Young-Joo Suh,
Hwangjun Song

OS

Chanik Park

Big Data/Cloud Computing (BD&C) Institute

Big Data/Cloud Computing pertains to saving and processing a huge amount of data and is becoming increasingly important, revolutionizing the IT environment for today and tomorrow. In this context, securing core technologies in BD&C will serve as the most critical tool in building and leading the future IT environment.

Big Data/Cloud Computing (BD&C) Institute

Research Areas

Professors

System Infrastructure

Architecture/Performance

Jong Kim

System Software

Chanik Park

Parallel System/Performance

Hanjun Kim(JA)

Database System

Wook-Shin Han(JA)

Security/Reliability

Jong Kim,
Chanik Park

Datacenter Network

James Won-Ki Hong,
Hwangjun Song

Mobile Network

Young-Joo Suh

Application Technology

Data Analytics

Seung-Jin Choi,
Hwanjo Yu

Database

Hwanjo Yu

Surveillance

Daijin Kim,
Bohyung Han

Intelligence

Gary Geunbae Lee,
Jong-Hyeok Lee

Visualization

Seungyong Lee

Hyper Connected Things (HCT) Institute

Hyper Connected Things (HCT) is the term that we coined to show the future of Internet of Things. Along with Human Computer Interaction and Big Data/Cloud Computing, HCT will be the core collaborative and interdisciplinary group that will lead the future IT industry.